Plot
Manhattan Island has become a maximum-security prison for three
million criminals. When the American President?s plane is
hijacked and crashed on the island, the President is taken
hostage by gangland warlord ?The Duke?. Sent to the rescue is
Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell), former war hero now convicted
criminal. To ensure safe return of the President, the police
commissioner (Lee Van Cleef) has had tiny time bombs implanted
in Plissken?s neck if he gets the President out within twenty
four hours he gets a pardon, if not, the bombs will detonate and
rupture his major arteries.